"From Google to the renminbi, China is being blamed for all that ails the United States. Unfortunately, this reflects a potentially lethal combination of political scapegoating and bad economics."

Stephen Roach, a senior executive with New York-based investment bank Morgan Stanley, writing in the Financial Times

"I wonder what was on their minds when they described the battle against crime and graft as a publicity stunt."

Bo Xilai, Secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, dismissing accusations that the city's recent crime sweep that led to the arrest and conviction of thousands of gangsters was an orchestrated show to grab media attention

"This is the down-payment Haiti needs for wholesale national renewal."

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, after donors pledged nearly $10 billion in aid to Haiti, more than double the amount requested by the country's president after January's earthquake

"It should give the tuna some breathing room ... And it's good news for sharks too."

Jay Nelson, Director of the Global Ocean Legacy with the Pew Environment Group, on the British Government's designation of the Chagos Islands as a marine reserve, which will be the world's largest

"I've got great respect for The [New York] Times, except it does have very clearly an agenda. You can see it in the way they choose their stories, what they put on page one--anything Obama wants. And the White House pays off by feeding them stories."

Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation Chairman, on the rivalry between The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal